Planting What Where- Short Course

The Planting What Where short course will provide you with an understanding of plant knowledge that will help you select plants that are right for your garden.

Whether you are a professional or a home gardener, this course will help ensure that you are not wasting time and money by selecting the wrong plants for your location.

Plant selection is an important part of creating a beautiful and functional garden. With careful selection and well thought out planting schemes you can minimise maintenance, disease and prevent over-planting. Over-planting is one of the most easily made mistakes in a garden. This is especially so for large trees that could end up being very costly to remove.

This self guided short course will go through the essentials of plant selection and planting placement including plant selection, plant establishment methods, identifying problems, solutions for wet areas, gardening in the shade, designing windbreaks, hedges and screens in the garden, plants for dry gardens, plants ideal for coastal regions, trees and shrub selection, small garden design, plants for other situations, lawns and living garden art.

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Course Lessons

This short course covers the following 13 lessons:

1. Plant Selection

Planting strategies

2. Plant Establishment Methods

Ways to help plants get established

Techniques for planting sloped areas

Planting arid sites

Rehabilitating damaged soils in the home garden

3. Detecting Problems

Pests

Diseases

First: conduct an inspection

Second: take note of the environment

Third: identify the problem

Fourth: treat the problem

Review what you have been learning

Solutions for wet areas

What can cause wet areas in your garden?

Problems with wet areas

Overcoming problems with boggy or wet areas

4. Plants for Wet/Boggy Sites

How to keep the soil wet all year

Plants that grow in permanently wet soil

Plants that tolerate wet in winter and drier soil in summer

Creating a bog garden

Construction of water gardens

Plants for water gardens

Review what you have been learning

Gardening in the Shade

Ferns

5. Shade trees

Deciduous or semi deciduous trees

Evergreen shade trees

6. Windbreaks Hedges and Screens

Hedges

Windbreaks

7. Plants for Dry Gardens

Gardening in dry condition

Design and planting a fire break

8. Coastal Gardens

Dealing with salt

Creating wind breaks

Hardy seaside plants

9. Trees and Shrubs

Evergreen trees

Cool conifers

Deciduous trees for autumn colour

Shrubs in the landscape

Examples of long flowering plants

Shrubs that flower in autumn

What flowers in winterLiving Christmas trees

10. Fitting More in a Small Garden

How to fit more in a small garden

Small trouble free plants

Space-saving decoration

Go up

Expand your garden

Colours

Design your garden to appear bigger

11. Plants for Various Situations

Frost hardy plants

Hardy plants for inner city gardens

Plants for pets

Long narrow areas

12. Lawns

Choosing the right lawn

Turf varieties

13. Living Garden Art

Living art

How to make a hedge

Miniature/table top gardens

Using junk in living gardens

FINAL EXAM

How our short courses work?

You may enrol any time of day or night

You can start studying immediately or later (as you wish)

You can configure your study sessions at any length and frequency you wish

Work through at your own pace

Complete the course in as little as 20 hours- or more if you want to undertake optional additional studies